Genus of flagellated protists
Dinenympha
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Dinenympha from Reticulotermes termite, light micrograph of living cell
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Dinenympha
Leidy 1877
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Type species
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Dinenympha gracilis
Leidy 1877
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Synonyms
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- Pyrsonympha (Dinenympha) (Leidy 1877) Koidzumi 1921
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Dinenympha is a genus of Excavata.
It includes the species Dinenympha exilis.[1]
- ^ Moriya S, Ohkuma M, Kudo T (April 1998). "Phylogenetic position of symbiotic protist Dinenympha [correction of Dinemympha] exilis in the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus inferred from the protein phylogeny of elongation factor 1 alpha". Gene. 210 (2): 221–7. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00078-X. PMID 9573371.